Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Angie Payne on Automator

Recently, I haven't been posting on the news in climbing since A. there hasn't been too much of interest and B. many other sites do it. However a new standard has just been set in women's bouldering; that is, a woman has sent a solid confirmed F8b. Jamie Emerson is the first to post news that Angie Payne linked the Automator, a low line of sloping edges and crimps in RMNP and a well-known testpiece in the grade. From working it, I can attest to its difficulty personally and the list of those who have done it reads like a who's who of bouldering. Nice work Angie!

3 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I think Kelly McBride and then DPM beat him to it? And John Dickey definitely beat him to it on Facebook. Those just are not rss fed (except Kelly's, which was texted so didn't work so well) so you have to actually navigate to those sites to see the news, vs. having it show up in your blog reader...

Could be the case for sure. I'm not FB friends with either (yet). Sounds like a good argument for making sure your blog is RSS fed somewhere. As I said, I rarely report news like this and will give credit to the source I first encounter. Thanks for the follow-up!